I'm not mistaken, you're just being dense. Of course I know about IM+, AIM and Beejive. The experience of chatting while doing other stuff on the iPad is vastly

I'm not mistaken, you're just being dense. Of course I know about IM+, AIM and Beejive. The experience of chatting while doing other stuff on the iPad is vastly inferior to chatting while doing other stuff on your laptop. You can't play a game and chat at the same time, you can't watch a movie and chat at the same time, you can't use any app and chat at the same time. You are limited to IM+ and the IM+ built in browser. Regarding IM+ sucking, the latest revision is much better than it used to be.